Improvement in flood-fences



To all whom it may conce/rn;-

" hereinafterdescribed.`

oIIAR'Ln-sfn. BUNTE-R, or DOUGLAS,

ILLINOIS.

" vLetters Patent No. naztruaea February 2s, 1871.

IMPROV'EMENTIN noon-Fences'.

`TheSel-iefule referred to these Letters Patent-'and making part of the elaine.l

`Bc it knownthatI, CHARLES R. HUNTER, of

` Douglas, in the countyofKnoX and State of lllil nois, have invented anew `and valuable Improvementy "in `lillood-Eences; and I do hereby declare that the following isalfull, clear, andI exact description of the construction androperation Iof the same, reference being had to the, annexed drawing making a part of i this specification-and to the letters and figures ofref-` `erence marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a central vertical longitudinal section of my flood-fence.

Figure 2 is an endyviewl of the same. My invention has "relation tolood-fences;` and l It consists `thetconstruction and novel arrange? l ment of devices, whereby the sections ofthe fence are.

hinged to stone blocks, and] connected together as Thefletters .Ai` Alof` the drawing designateistone blocks, which serveas anchors foruthe fence. Each e y of tlieseblocks` is centrally perforated for the recep tion of `the vertical srtemof the-hinge, and Ycountersunk'to receive the bolt by `which the pintle is secured B B represent the `fence-sections.

.OO represent arms, which are fastened to the ter` minal uprigbts D AD ofthe fence-section, and are providedwith `perforated ends, whereby they are hinged to the horizontal arms ofthe pintle.

` l represents the pintle., Above the washer j' its lateral surfaces, against which the arms C O bear, are

plane. v

lhese terminate in a shoulder, G, which rests on the washer f.

B'elow, the Washer the stem Z is round, and adapted to turn in its seat, inA order that the fence-sections may be placed at any required angle with each other. h represents the nut, whereby the pintle is secured to the block A.

On each .side of the pintle, above the washer, arev formed the horizontal bearing-arms or pivots 'm m, on

:which the boxes v rv of the arms O O rotate.

These horizontal anis 'm mrare shouldered vnear their ends, and the arms O O are secured on their bearings by the nuts s s, which are screwed up against these shoulders.

The combination f the anchor A and the pintle E, provided with.` horizontal bearing-arms m fm, and

vwasher f, with the fence-sectious B l3,provided4 with the hinge-arms O O, substantially as specified/ In testimony that I claim the above I have here- V unto subscribed my name'in the presence ot'two wit nesses.

` CHARLES R. HUNTER.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. THURMAN, l ALvArr HULBERT." 

